“These are the things which occur to me at present, & which I would submit to your Grace’s Consideration, as what seems to require more immediate Dispatch; As to the danger of the french Fleet’s early Return from the West Indies to Nova Scotia and what Strength of Ships may be necessary to protect that Province, Cape Breton, and the other Colonies against that Fleet, or any other french Armament which may be sent from Europe in the Spring to visit these Parts, I leave to Admiral Warren, who now goes to England in the Chester, and with whom, 334 pursuant to the Directions of your Grace’s two Letters to me in March & April last, I have acted in Concert upon all such Occasions as requir’d my consulting him with the greatest Satisfaction and Harmony, having had the Pleasure to find my own Sentiments agreable to his in all Matters of Consequence, and a most hearty Disposition in him for his Majesty’s Service, and to whom I have often talk’d over the Affairs of Nova Scotia. * * * * * “I will avoid repeating what I have particularly mention’d to your Grace in late Letters concerning fortifying of Chebucto Harbour and building a Blockhouse or small Fort for 150 Men at Menis, with a Trading House there for the Indians, and a Blockhouse only at Canso for 100 Men, instead of new building and enlarging that at Annapolis Royal, and erecting a larger Fortification at Canso; which in my humble Opinion would greatly strengthen that Province, and together with the introducing of french Protestant Ministers, and English Schools, & some small Encouragement by Privileges to such as should conform to the Prtestant Religion, or send their Children to the English Schools, and Presents to the Indians with Supplies of all necessaries for ’em at the most reasonable Rates, in Exchange for their Furrs &^c.; the Disallowance of the publick Exercise of the Roman Catholic Religion, at least after a short Term of Years, & forbidding Romish Priests under severe Penalties to come into the Country either among the Inhabitants or Indians; and if it might be consistent with his Majesty’s Pleasure, a Civil Government to be in due time introduc’d among the Inhabitants; These things, I say, my Lord together with making Examples of the most obnoxious among the Inhabitants, and his Majesty’s extending his Clemency and the Continuance of his Protection to the rest upon taking the proper Oath 335 of Allegiance, seem to me to have the most promising Aspect for making good Subjects of the present Generation of Inhabitants, at least better than they are now and good Protestants of the next Generation of ’em; especially if there was to be a Mixture of English or other Protestants introduc’d among ’em, which the Invitation of a Civil Government to be set up among ’em would bid fair for doing: and the Trading House would create in the Indians a firm Dependance upon, and Attachment to his Majesty’s Government, especially if a proper